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Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 6.5mp3 vcb policy failure

2009-02-19 16:51:55
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 6.5mp3 vcb policy failure
From: "George Winter" <george_winter AT symantec DOT com>
To: <mark_t_wragge AT yahoo DOT ie>, <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:10 -0700

Hi Mark.  Based on the information you provided it sounds to me like it could be a policy configuration issue.   What I might suggest is that you configure the policy using the “Create a Snapshot Backup Policy” policy creation wizard. 

 

Another issue could be related to DNS.  You should make sure that the VM hostnames resolve correctly.

 

If you need further assistance, feel free to contact me directly.

 

-George Winter

 

george_winter AT symantec DOT com

 

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of mark wragge
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:05 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] netbackup 6.5mp3 vcb policy failure

 

Hi, I have created a netbackup flashbackup-windows policy with the objective of backing up virtual machines but i cannot get it to work successfully. I am using windows 2003 netbackup 6.5mp3 and esx 3.02 running VMs of Win2003.

 

I have selected off-host backup and i have selected my VM proxy (also my master server which i have previosuly added as a Virtual Machine Proxy Server is Master Server host properties) . 

 

In Policy snapshot client options i have selected snapshot mount point of V:\vcb (this disk and folder exist on the proxy server). All three other parameters are selected as 0 (although i have attempted option 2 with VM backup). I have inserted the client name of the VM and selected All_local Drives.

 

The validation of the advanced client polciy fails with error message of "snapshot could not be created with vmware method".

 

Before creating the policy i have inserted the name of the esx server and username/password under credentials-> VM Servers.

I have also installed the VMware VCB v1.5 (downloaded from the vmware website). Before doing this i removed the previous version of vcb which was 1.1

I have permitted the proxy server to see the SAN attached disks which are the VMFS disks on the ESX server and contain the VMs. These disks can be seen in Windows Disk Management.

 

I have successfully used the vcbmounter command from command line;

vcbMounter.exe -h <FQDN of ESX Server> -u root -p <root password> -a ipaddr:<FQDN of virtual machine> -r  v:\vcb_mnt\<VM hostname> -t fullvm

 

I do not know where to look next! Is there any configuration to text files that must be performed after VCB v1.5 is installed (as there was in v1.1).

Thanks for any help, Mark 

 

 

 

 


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